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I never liked the Latis. I do prefer Latias slightly over Latios, but in the end, they're both pretty lame legendaries.

I like everything else here though, with Registeel and the whole Metagross line standing out.

I'm expecting absolutely nothing.

Most of the time I do, but I won't do it for a book I truly want to keep in good condition.

littlebro07 posted...

Yeah thats pretty much it, like they play fine but the atmosphere just isnt right. The original feels like it switched to a legit horror game at that point

You can very blatantly and clearly see combat forms in the distance at the beginning of 343 Guilty Spark, which definitely spoils things for anyone who's never played before. Honestly though, I always thought it that level in particular looked really good in the anniversary graphics. The rest of the campaign generally looks good too in my opinion, and I never really agreed with the criticism.

But yes, any first time players should probably play the campaign mostly or entirely in the original graphics.

littlebro07 posted...

Is MCC that bad now? Havent touched it in ages

I never heard anything concrete about that. But any time I've played MCC in the past year it's just been to check out cool modded campaign missions.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

I mean yeah you're probably gonna prepare for a quest, but you don't need to put thought into stuff like inventory space and which combination materials to bring with you because you can just zoom back to camp and restock and put on another armour set if the one you had didn't suit the occasion. Preparation used to be a much bigger deal and now it's something you don't need to think about too deeply.

Perhaps the seikret is a compromise to the restocking issue. Have a mount that can hold some extra materials/items and another weapon. But you remove restocking from the camp or at least seriously limit it. In all likelihood, it will probably be the same as World and Rise though.

legendarylemur posted...

Jesus fuck, there have been 3 MH Wilds trailers and like maybe 20 seconds of that was actual combat. I hate how World has set such a non-Hunting MH as a precedent, and that's what we're gonna get now.

Gamers love their fucking cinematics so much. Just go watch movies and gtfo other good series

MH World is still like 90% hunting, so I don't know what you're complaining about. I mean you already know how Monster Hunter plays. I think it's okay to show off the new monsters and locales first if they're only gonna be a couple of short trailers.

Jaguar34 posted...

I downloaded Icebourne, is it the same as world or is it another game?

Iceborne is just an expansion to World with its own story that is somewhat a continuation of World's. But mainly it adds master rank (which is the next step up from high rank), new monsters, a couple additional locales, a new hub area, and some other stuff. Anyone who is interested in getting World really should get Iceborne as well. The same thing goes for Rise and Sunbreak.

My first thought was that this doesn't make sense at all. The campaign obviously doesn't need to be remade. But remaking the multiplayer while still being faithful to it is an interesting idea. If that's something they can do. The MCC brought Halo: CE multiplayer to a ton of people that had never experienced it before. But it's heavily overshadowed by Reach, 2, and 3 multiplayer being accessible in the same game.

That said, it probably just makes more sense to port MCC over in its entirety.

Yeah this caught my eye a while back. Looks fun.

I dislike the rental items, but it's still undoubtedly a great game.

Twinklestar posted...

Never mind the song, imagine their confusion at seeing the standees lol

I hope they get a player to take a photo with one of the standees.

It's one of the more well-known Godzilla comic series.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

The plot twist at the end came out of nowhere for me and I almost broke down. Like I had absolutely no reason to expect that to happen and it just hit me like a truck.

The stinger with Godzilla's beating heart felt like it aped a little too much from GMK and didn't really fit tonally with the rest of the film imo. Kinda funny since both this movie and that deal with a Godzilla directly linked to WW2 and have the monster defeated by a dad blowing it up from the inside. :P

Yeah it was pretty obvious that GMK was a major inspiration for Minus One. Even outright stated to be the director's favorite Godzilla movie. I kind of agree with you about the heart, since the mark on Noriko's neck serves a similar purpose of making for an ambiguous ending.

Looks like Aggron has had the most dominating performance yet.

I think I played Morrowind first but very briefly. A couple hours on the original Xbox version. Oblivion was my first real one.

HighSeraph posted...

They changed it in the final dlc

The third DLC, not the final one.

I've always been fond of Whismur and Exploud. Loudred is okay too, but I prefer the other two.

Gen 3 has a lot of good Pokemon. I've liked most of the ones done so far.

s0nicfan posted...

You got to think bigger than that. Like being able to bring two different elements to a dual hunt where you have to take down two monsters. Or bringing a hunting horn for solo hunts so you can buff yourself right before switching to your main weapon or healing so you can patch yourself up every time the monster runs without having to waste potions. Or maybe you want to bring one blunt and one blade weapon with part breaker for farming runs so you can more easily cut the tails and break armor in a single go.

Hell, you could keep an "oh shit" weapon that's gemmed out to be more powerful when you're at low health that you just keep in your back pocket in case a hunt is going particularly poorly and you need to take a risk to have any shot at finishing it.

In fact, once you factor gems into the equation it gets even crazier than that. You could have a weapon with a lot of gem slots that you only carry around so you can temporarily get geologist level 3 or something for farming ore and Bone piles before the main hunt.

Yeah perhaps there are some creative things you could do. But with skills still tied mostly to your armor, you're not likely to have a set-up that is optimal for both weapons at the same time. Perhaps that's not a bad thing, but I'd just prefer to focus on one weapon. Maybe when the game does release it will add a new interesting layer to hunts.

I'd also be pretty surprised if horn buffs persisted to other weapons. I think in current games if you switch off horn at the tent you lose the buff. It would certainly make Hunting Horn more popular.

Why would I need a weapon switching mechanic when my weapon already switches between axe and sword? But yeah, I think most players already had a pocket bowgun. Now they're literally going to have a pocket bowgun. I'm not fond of ranged weapons, so I'll likely be carrying two melee weapons around most of the time. For me though, Switchaxe already does everything I'd want to do in a hunt. I guess Lance or Gunlance pairs well with it since Switchaxe has no real means of defense.

The new monsters look cool.

World does not exist for the Switch.

Xatrion posted...

I can deal with all that. What I can't deal with is the gross lack of human weaponry available during the level. Contrary to the lore, human guns are so much better than covenant ones.

You don't know pain until you've had to empty a dozen plasma pistols into a hunter's back.

I don't think I'd say in Halo CE that the human guns are clearly better than the Covenant ones. The Plasma Pistol is arguably the best gun in the entire game. And the Plasma Rifle is also really good. It's just the Needler that is pretty lacking. It's really such a small pool of weapons though, so certainly you have more variety in the human ones.

But yes, having a sniper or pistol or rocket is preferable for hunters. But even the AR works if you have nothing else just because Hunters are not very threatening in that game.

I don't think the pistol is needed when there's enough sniper ammo lying around that you could feasibly hold onto the sniper for most of the level. It's still pretty useful inside the ship in larger rooms. No doubt the shotgun being available would have been great.

I've never found it to be the hardest mission for me personally, but it's obviously up there. And I think more than any other level it exemplifies how important grenades are in Halo: CE. The fight at the base of the gravity well always boils down to me just spamming the hell out of grenades.

I did not think Mightyena was that popular. I just went with Dustox because I figured it'd be low on votes. And I assumed Zigzagoon was going to be the clear favorite. Apparently not.

Injuries are dumb

I get not wanting to watch a 4 hour video because there are a lot of youtube videos of that length with subjects that I couldn't care less about. Like I don't particularly care to watch a 9 hour retrospective on a video game.

This video is a very in-depth look at a niche subject and it doesn't waste any of its 4 hour length. I thought it was very interesting, and I'll probably take a look at some of her other videos now.

Southernfatman posted...

I played one of those games and would get pissed at the RNG. Several times during a 99% chance to make a shot, I'd get that 1%. Seemed like once you started getting into a groove the game would throw in harder enemies at you. You end up being way under powered.

Somewhere in the middle to later stages of the campaign when new enemies stop being introduced, the game shifts heavily into XCOM's favor. In both Firaxis games, high ranked soldiers are basically minigods in their own right. They can still die if you're not careful, but the abilities and equipment you have access to allow you to blow through missions without too much trouble.

PM64 by a hair.

That, SMRPG, TTYD, and Superstar Saga are all about equal in my opinion.

Skarmory will always feel like a Gen 3 Pokemon to me because I never even saw the thing until I played Ruby and Sapphire.

Lots of really good ones in this batch. Giving a pity vote to Slugma, since it's unlikely he'll get more than a couple.

But perhaps this video might convince some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-MuKoLTN8

It's great

Steelix, Dunsparce, Snubbull and Gligar are all pretty solid, but not particularly among my favorites either. Voting for Dunsparce is the funniest option though.

Also, Snubbull is the only shiny Pokemon I ever caught. In Pokemon Y during a Nuzlocke.

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Yes. It's very unique as far as strategy games go because of the separation between the battle map and the campaign map. Campaign gameplay is similar to many other 4x strategy games. It's turn-based, and you build up your empire. But battles are real-time tactics. Control and give orders to each individual unit in your army, adjust their formation, etc.

Anyway, I'm extremely skeptical of a Star Wars Total War actually being conceived. I'd certainly be interested though. I think if they keep doing fictional stuff it will be 40k.

Yeah this was featured in pannenkoek's invisible walls video.

Crobat is one of my top three overall.

All of these ones are great except for the Dragonite family. Never particularly liked any of them, though I guess Dratini is okay.

But it's Mewtwo for me.

I always found Starmie to be really overrated. It's got some nice colors, but it's not really all that interesting to me otherwise.

Gyarados is an easy pick here.

The failure of the Wii U never made sense to me. The gamepad and name were both really dumb. But it was a fine system other than those, and it had some excellent games. Yeah it sucks having to actually pay additional money to get a real controller, but the Pro Controller is at least one of the best controllers ever made.

Weezing has a good shot in this one since he's not up against any standout Pokemon. Poison types are the best.

Good game, but a pretty disappointing Halo game. Both campaign and multiplayer was massive letdowns compared to every Halo game before. And even the games after were better in certain regards. Halo 5 had much better multiplayer, and Halo Infinite was just better all-around.

I think my unpopular opinion about the game though is that the story didn't do a whole lot for me. I was actually much more intrigued by the story set up in Spartan Ops strangely enough. The gameplay for it was alright, but I liked the direction that I thought Halo 5's story was going to be headed in. Of course, as we all know, they utterly screwed that up.

The only thing I fully agree on is the Joker being the killer of Bruce's parents. Obviously that was incredibly stupid. I enjoyed it otherwise though.

RIP

No doubt that him as Theoden in LOTR is the most standout performance in the entire trilogy.

Hambo posted...

It really is a close one, huh? I'm surprised Tentacruel is doing so well. I would have expected the Tentas to be written off as the Zubats of the sea. Also didn't expect Slowbro or Victreebel to do so well, but it's nice to see they have fans.

The Zubat and Tentacool lines have that negative reputation almost entirely because of how common they are. They're all really well-designed Pokemon I think. Any Pokemon that appears that frequently isn't going to be all that exotic or interesting. Though Zubat is a little bit different in that once it got to become Crobat, it became an easy to get Pokemon that also happened to be really good all the way through to the end of the game. Tentacruel is also pretty solid, but it has a million other Water types to compete with.